Wes Anderson's 'The Phoenician Scheme' to hit Indian cinemas on 6 June
‘The Phoenician Scheme’ will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival as part of the main competition.
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New Delhi, 16 May
Acclaimed filmmaker
Wes Anderson's new film ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ will be released in Indian
theatres on 6 June.
Described as "a
dark and gripping tale of espionage that unravels the complexities of a
strained father-daughter relationship”, the movie is brought to India by
Universal Pictures (distributed by Warner Bros Discovery) and Dreamworks
Animation.
‘The Phoenician
Scheme’ will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival as part of the
main competition.
The movie features a
star-studded cast of Benicio del Toro, Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Mia
Threapleton, Tom Hanks, Riz Ahmed, Michael Cera, Benedict Cumberbatch and Bryan
Cranston.
Anderson, known for
films like ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’, ‘The Darjeeling Limited’, ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’,
‘Moonrise Kingdom’, ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ and ‘The French Dispatch’, has
directed the movie from a story he wrote with Roman Coppola, son of legendary
filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola.
The film revolves
around a fractured father-daughter relationship set within the confines of a
powerful, secretive family-run business.
"When the
daughter, once estranged from her enigmatic father, returns to uncover the
truth about her family’s wealth, she stumbles upon a covert global operation
entangled in political manipulation, surveillance, and betrayal," reads
the official plotline.
Anderson said he
wrote the movie specifically with the aim of collaborating with del Toro once
again. The duo had earlier worked together on the 2021 movie "The French Dispatch".
"I first brought
this up with Benicio in 2021, at Cannes for 'The French Dispatch'. I told him
then that something was coming his way if he was interested. Benicio and I
started working on it very early. As soon as there were fifteen pages of the
script, he’d seen that. There was never a moment in the process when Benicio
was not involved," the director said.
‘The Phoenician
Scheme’ is produced by Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson and John Peet.
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